Sales 100

Ranked by 2004 revenue.

2005	2004	Company	2004 revenue (millions)	1-year change (%)
1	1	Raytheon Co.	$20,245.0	11.8
2	2	TJX Cos.	$14,913.5	11.9
3	3	Staples	$14,448.4	11.4
4	6	Gillette Co.	$10,477.0	13.2
5	8	EMC Corp.	$8,229.5	32.0
6	7	BJ's Wholesale Club	$7,375.3	10.2
7	11	Boston Scientific Corp.	$5,624.0	61.8
8	9	State Street Corp.	$4,951.0	4.6
9	10	Reebok International Ltd.	$3,785.3	8.6
10	12	Allmerica Financial Corp.	$3,111.0	-4.7
11	13	NStar	$2,954.3	1.5
12	14	Analog Devices	$2,609.0	19.4
13	33	Biogen IDEC	$2,211.6	225.6
14	15	Thermo Electron Corp.	$2,206.0	16.1
15	17	Genzyme Corp.	$2,201.1	28.4
16	16	Cabot Corp.	$1,983.0	8.3
17	22	Perini Corp.	$1,842.3	34.1
18	21	Iron Mountain	$1,817.6	21.1
19	18	Commerce Group	$1,806.6	10.1
20	23	Teradyne	$1,791.9	32.5
21	19	Talbots	$1,697.8	6.5
22	20	PerkinElmer	$1,687.2	10.1
23	24	Boston Properties	$1,403.8	7.5
24	--	Novell	$1,175.4	5.6
25	25	Waters Corp.	$1,104.5	15.3
26	27	Keane	$911.5	13.2
27	28	Millipore Corp.	$883.3	10.5
28	37	Skyworks Solutions	$829.1	31.0
29	32	Watts Water Technologies	$824.6	17.5
30	29	Tweeter Home Entertainment Group	$789.4	1.5
31	39	Charles River Laboratories International	$766.9	25.0
32	61	CMGI	$755.1	89.2
33	38	UniFirst Corp.	$726.9	15.6
34	31	American Tower Corp.	$706.7	11.7
35	45	Eaton Vance Corp.	$686.6	23.7
36	35	Parexel International Corp.	$674.0	5.5
37	34	Parametric Technology Corp.	$672.4	2.4
38	30	3Com Corp.	$668.5	-9.1
39	50	Affiliated Managers Group	$660.0	33.3
40	46	Hospitality Properties Trust	$645.4	16.7
41	40	Clean Harbors	$643.2	5.3
42	42	Safety Insurance Group	$636.4	7.5
43	44	Five Star Quality Care	$628.0	9.2
44	48	HRPT Properties Trust	$619.3	18.1
45	51	Investors Financial Services Corp.	$613.2	25.1
46	53	Avid Technology	$589.6	24.9
47	70	Brooks Automation	$575.0	68.5
48	43	Friendly Ice Cream Corp.	$574.5	-0.9
49	47	Stride Rite Corp.	$558.3	1.5
50	62	Varian Semiconductor Equipment Associates	$557.8	46.5
51	71	MKS Instruments	$555.1	64.6
52	49	Yankee Candle Co.	$554.2	9.0
53	52	Bright Horizons Family Solutions	$551.8	16.7
54	74	Axcelis Technologies	$508.0	54.9
55	54	Interactive Data Corp.	$484.6	9.5
56	59	Kronos	$469.3	15.2
57	55	Millennium Pharmaceuticals	$448.2	3.3
58	60	PolyMedica Corp.	$445.8	9.4
59	63	J. Jill Group	$434.9	15.4
60	57	American Biltrite	$433.9	4.2
61	64	Mestek	$404.9	10.5
62	78	Cytyc Corp.	$393.6	29.9
63	76	Digitas	$382.0	22.5
64	65	Circor International	$381.8	6.2
65	68	Haemonetics Corp.	$381.3	9.8
66	69	Sepracor	$380.9	10.7
67	80	Inverness Medical Innovations	$376.9	27.0
68	72	Steinway Musical Instruments	$375.0	11.2
69	56	Casual Male Retail Group	$365.0	7.6
70	77	Progress Software Corp.	$362.7	17.3
71	66	Analogic Corp.	$359.6	3.7
72	58	Enterasys Networks	$356.9	-13.9
73	--	GSI Lumonics	$330.0	77.8
74	79	Heritage Property Investment Trust	$327.0	9.7
75	82	RSA Security	$307.5	18.3
76	75	Aspen Technology	$305.7	-10.0
77	--	First Marblehead Corp.	$290.5	109.3
78	91	Mykrolis Corp.	$289.2	55.6
79	73	Quaker Fabric Corp.	$289.1	-11.1
80	81	Bruker Daltonics	$284.4	9.1
81	83	Dynamics Research Corp.	$275.7	12.6
82	92	Ascential Software Corp.	$271.9	46.5
83	89	Sapient Corp.	$266.0	36.9
84	86	Hologic	$245.0	19.6
85	96	LTX Corp.	$220.8	31.9
86	94	Mercury Computer Systems	$218.8	25.6
87	85	Boston Beer Co.	$217.2	4.5
88	98	Charles River Associates	$216.7	32.6
89	88	Courier Corp.	$215.6	7.8
90	90	Zoll Medical Corp.	$211.6	10.0
91	99	Akamai Technologies	$210.0	30.2
92	--	Cognex Corp.	$202.0	34.6
93	87	Kadant	$195.0	1.8
94	--	Boston Private Financial Holdings	$192.2	47.3
95	--	ScanSoft	$191.5	41.4
96	95	L.S. Starrett Co.	$190.0	10.7
97	93	MRO Software	$188.1	5.8
98	--	Mac-Gray Corp.	$182.7	22.1
99	97	American Dental Partners	$178.6	9.1
100	100	Vicor Corp.	$171.6	13.3

NOTE: For banks, revenue equals the sum of net interest income, after provision for loan losses, and noninterest income.SOURCE: Standard&Poor's Compustat